The font definitely makes it hard, Egypt has a prominent gold eagle in the middle, Syria has two stars while Iraq has ‘God is great” and then Yemen is Red, White and Black lol
The Arab world was much more diverse before the 60s when it came to flags.
Honestly Poland did pretty well. Most people would've put them as last in the group before. They never got slaughtered and actually came away with a point from playing France. They looked to be at least an equal match for Netherlands and Austria for some parts of those games as well. Scored in all games too.
To be fair Germany's neighbours make up one third of all participating teams (Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland)
Fun fact, it wasn't realised that Haiti and Liechtenstein had identical flags until the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics where Haiti had one athlete. Afterwhich, Liechtenstein added the Prince's crown and Haiti later added the coat of arms for a different reason.
as someone who works with data professionally, 3/4 of the posts on their are absolutely atrocious and give me writhing anxiety. They seem to equate more color = better viz when the opposite is almost always the case.
as a fellow data professional, I agree. There either needs to be an uprising in that sub or an entirely new one needs to be made, because the posts on there are, objectively, straight-up ass.
I was going to write something anti-English, but then I saw where you're actually from and became filled with pity. I'm glad digital technology has finally made its way to your poor, oilless desert.
As a Portuguese man, I'm seeing Spain, Germany AND France on our side of the bracket and thinking: "man, where is Fernando Santos to make us end the group stage in third?"
This would have been 2 fun matches... if it mattered at all. It's not even an advantage to finish 1st, because 1st and 2nd both get a 2nd from a different group. This is nonsense, they should have seeding for next round.
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